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8/18/10: How Pleasure Works

photo: Dimas Barquilla/Creative Commons via flickr
photo: Dimas Barquilla/Creative Commons via flickr

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, Utah – Wednesday on RadioWest, the psychologist Paul Bloom joins Doug to explain how pleasure works. This is more than just about the simple pleasures of food or sex. How do you account for the pleasure of seeing a painting, for example, or for some, the pleasure of getting spanked? Pleasure is complicated, and Bloom says it's grounded in a belief about the essence of a thing. It's a conversation about philosophy, neuroscience, evolution, childhood development ... about why we desire what we desire.

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